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The Post Traumatic Growth of a Guardian Healer
- PTSD Can Become a Gift Rather Than a Lifetime Disability
- De: Greg Becker
- Narrado por: Michael W. Cover
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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This book is critically relevant to health workers and others who may develop PTSD because of extreme stress. In the 1970s, I experienced deep traumas while running a hospital in the Central African bush where I had to ration care because of severe shortages of medicines - a situation very similar to the decisions faced by physicians, nurses and EMTs in our overburdened health systems. During my long career I had repetitive exposure to traumas in places like Afghanistan during the war, Haiti after the earthquake, and Liberia during the Ebola crisis.
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Guide to Post-Traumatic Growth/Great autobiography
- De MB en 07-08-22
- The Post Traumatic Growth of a Guardian Healer
- PTSD Can Become a Gift Rather Than a Lifetime Disability
- De: Greg Becker
- Narrado por: Michael W. Cover
Guide to Post-Traumatic Growth/Great autobiography
Revisado: 07-08-22
Greg Becker doesn't list all the details about himself or of his amazing life right away in this interesting listen. He reminds me of Frank Abnegale of "Catch Me If You Can" fame, except that Abnegale was a fraud, and Becker actually has done the things he describes -- from being an EMT in strife-torn Detroit, to a divemaster and underwater photographer in the Caribbean to a bush doctor doing amazingly complex OB/GYN in Central Africa, to setting up hospitals in the former Soviet Union to working in some of the most dangerous places in the world, including war-torn Afghanistan to the height of the Ebola epidemic in Liberia.
It's also late in the book that Becker mentions his size. He's 6'8" and weighs 330 lbs. He is an imposing presence in all the areas where he has done emergency work, and he uses it to his advantage to gain respect and cooperation from his foreign hosts.
Where normal people run from burning buildings, Becker has spent a lifetime running toward the fires, confident that he can be of help to people in dire situations. He certainly has done so, but not without personal cost. He enumerates three episodes when he contracted illnesses that were deeply life-threatening. But, perhaps more importantly, he has experienced a significant amount of PTSD, just from the trauma-to-trauma-to-trauma existence he has chosen to expose himself to. And this giant of a man has been brought low, on more than one occasion, by the cumulative effects. He talks with great honesty about his alcoholism and recovery, and also details how he has dealt with his PTSD. In the end, he takes a positive view -- that post-traumatic growth (PTG) is actually possible -- not in spite of, but because of, his remarkable set of experiences.
This book should interest anyone who wants a first-person story about PTG, or who just wants to hear an amazing autobiography.
Michael Cover's reading is excellent and articulate, a real benefit to the listener, but there were times I wished he had injected some emotion when touching on some of the suspenseful moments in the story.
The planet is a better place because Greg Becker walked upon it.
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